Photographer: Yuyang Liu for Bloomberg Businessweek For months, Daniel Zhang huddled with a small team in an underground garage in Shanghai. The chief executive of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. was working on a secret plan that would sound crazy even…

Photographer: Damir Sagolj/Reuters It's tempting to laugh off the U.S.-China trade dispute as a soap opera featuring men with big hair and bigger egos. Presidents Donald Trump of the U.S. and Xi Jinping of China once professed close friendship; now…

Gray concrete walls rise out of the Mediterranean off the coast of Haifa in northern Israel, part of what, by 2021, is supposed to be among the world's most advanced class of seaports. The future shipping terminal, along with another being built…

Alumni Insights Our survey of 126 business schools around the world asked MBA grads to rate the power of their school's alumni network, reputation, academic quality, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Stanford—Bloomberg Businessweek's No. 1…